EMB TO ASSESS PINACANAUAN RIVER WATER QUALITY

TUGUEGARAO CITY: The Environment Management Bureau (EMB) is conducting water tests along the Pinacanauan River amid observations by environmental groups that the river is now a dumping site of solid wastes, which further degrade water quality. Local residents here have also expressed alarm of the threat posed to their health claiming that the river has become an exit point of drainage within the city which is contributory to the river’s destruction. Dr. Isabela Anzia, EMB chief-pollution control division, said they are conducting water quality management assessment along the Pinacanauan River specifically at the Pinacanauan de Tuguegarao site.